Management Team

 Naiel Kanno  President & CEO

 J Roland Vetter  Chief Financial Officer

 Kouros Goodarzi  VP of Engineering

 Ara Bedrossian  Chief Technology Officer

 Board of Directors

 Naiel Kanno - Director

 J Roland Vetter - Director

 Advisory Board

 Wenge Liu

With a 22+ year successful background in developing and guiding leading-edge technology companies, Mr. Kanno brings knowledge and skills in management, marketing, engineering, and enterprise application sales with a focus in the telecommunications and wireless sectors.

Prior to joining the iPackets International team, Mr. Kanno was the President and CEO, and a major investor in wireless software startup L3 Technology, Inc., which specialized in providing wireless optimization software solutions to the enterprise and mobile network operators. From 1988 to 1999, Mr. Kanno was the founder, President and CEO of EXL Information Corp., a provider of billing and customer care software solutions to competitive local exchange carriers, inter-exchange carriers, and long distance providers. Mr. Kanno sold EXL to Los Angeles-based OAN Services, a premium provider of specialized billing services and clearinghouse. OAN was a former subsidiary of EDS. Mr. Kanno also had a successful tenure at Boston-based Prime Computer, Inc., which included technical positions. Mr. Kanno holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. 

With more than two decades of experience in the software industry, Mr. Goodarzi has several years of hands-on experience in both software development and project engineering management. With his extensive experience, Mr. Goodarzi is highly regarded as an expert with mobile and wireless software technologies.

Prior to joining the iPackets team, he worked for Nokia directing all quality activities of one of Nokia’s largest development teams involved in CDMA platform development and ensured adherence to processes based on ISO and CMMI standards. Prior to that, as software manager, project manager and technical lead, Kouros has contributed to many small and medium sized entrepreneurial companies through successfully delivering projects and programs on time and on budget. These companies include Holley Communications Canada (previously Philips Semiconductor), L3 Technology, and Avcan Systems (now Optimal Geomatics).

With a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and a Masters degree in Computer Engineering, Mr. Goodarzi has established a solid educational background that is complimented by many courses and trainings. Practical experience, and knowledge of the industry’s standards and best practices has completed the package providing the overall technical view needed to supply senior management and investors with visions of the future of the industry to prepare high-level strategies to target wireless and mobile markets. He is an active member of the IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Communication Society, chair of the Engineering Management Society chapter of the Vancouver section, and member of IEEE 1648 Working Group for Establishing and Managing Software Development Efforts Using Agile Methods. 

Mr. Bedrossian brings over 15 years of experience in software engineering and development life cycle, and software management in wireless telecommunications, and embedded systems.

Prior to joining iPackets, Mr. Bedrossian was Nokia's Research and Development Software Project Manager, where he led a team of software engineers to deliver applications based on the Symbian operating system and Nokia's S60 platform. Mr. Bedrossian was also actively involved in identifying and evaluating next generation of messaging technologies, planned to be introduced for the S60 platform. Prior to that, Mr. Bedrossian was Director of software engineering with L3 Technology Inc., a provider of wireless technologies, where he oversaw the development and delivery of several wireless technologies. Mr. Bedrossian has also held a variety of management and technical positions with several companies, including co-founding three software development companies in the mid 1990s.

Mr. Bedrossian holds a B.Sc. in Applied Physics, and is an active member of the IEEE, and IEEE Computer Society.  

As an executive with a significant background in growing start-up companies, Roland Vetter specializes in technology, manufacturing and mining, with the skill to highlight opportunities and find innovative solutions to successfully grow such companies. He has diverse financial and operational ability at an executive level, including specialist expertise in completing due diligence, business plans and fund-raising. Historically he has had hands on expertise in assimilating and rationalizing operations as well as implementing projects, mergers, acquisitions and disposals. He has been responsible for risk management, internal controls, Corporate-governance and in optimizing funding structures including corporate tax planning. Roland Vetter is a Member of the Canadian and the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Accounting degree from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

Mr. Vetter was the former Group Financial Director Services for the Zimco Group and a former Chairman of the Anglo American Audit Liaison Committee. He worked for 12 years for Zimco (part of Anglo American Corporation), comprised twelve distinct operations involved in manufacturing and mining with an annual turnover in excess of $300 million. Since immigrating to Canada in 1998 Roland Vetter has been actively involved in venture capital and has consulted to start up companies in both the technology and mining sectors. 

As part of the newly created advisory board, Mr. Liu will keep iPackets up-to-date with changes or new coal mining legislations, provide iPackets with market intelligence, and introduce iPackets to major opportunities in the Chinese mining marketplace.

Mr. Liu is the current Acting Director of the Energy and Safety Division of the China Coal Information Institute (”CCII”) which operates under the newly created National Institute for Occupational Safety based in Beijing. The CCII, established by the Chinese government in 1959, is a national research organization with over 800 employees, and plays a leading role in the development of coal industry and occupational safety. In his current position with the CCII, Mr. Liu provides consulting services to domestic government agencies, and international organizations on the coal industry and occupational safety in China.

Mr. Liu holds a masters degree in Coal Preparation and Computer Application from the China University of Mining and Technologies (Beijing Campus - 1994). In addition, he holds undergraduate degrees in Industrial Electrical Automation (Xi'an Jiao Tong University -1989), and in Coal Mine Electric and Machine (Beijing Mining School - 1985). Mr. Liu is also a member of China National Coal Association.